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Sanyo To Build 30B Plant For Automotive Li-Ion Batteries

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Sanyo Electric Co. will spend about ¥30 billion (US$314 million) to build an automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Sanyo’s nickel hydride battery is installed in the Insight hybrid of Honda Motor Co. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Virtually all the world’s bigmotor manufacturers are building prototypes using lithium-ion batteries butso far they have reached production only in a few low-volume models. Peter Roach, Birmingham, UK Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries powered the late GM EV1 and still power hundreds of Toyota RAV4 EVs, some over 100,000 miles.